I'm trying to get PowerShell to use a specific section of a text file as a $variable to be used later in the script.
With Get-Content and index I can get to the point of having a whole line, but I just want one word to be the variable, not the whole thing.
The alphanumeric code will always be in the same location exactly
line 5 (counting the first one as 0 of course) and the position in would be between the characters 22 to 30 (or the last 8 characters of that line).
I would like that section of the document to be identified as $txtdoc, to be used later in:
$inputfield = $ie.Document.getElementByID('input5')
$inputfield.value = $txtdoc
The txt file contains the following
From: *************
Sent: *************
To: *******************
Subject: *************
On-Demand Tokencode: 79960739
Expires after use or 60 minutes
this maybe?
$variable = ( gc mytext.txt )[5].substring(21,8)
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Can anyone please help me in writing a script in AHK based on below requirement.
Requirement:
I have a CSV/TXT file in my windows environment which contains 20,000+ records in below format.
So, when I run the script it should prompt a InputBox to enter an instance name.
Example : If i enter Instance4 , it should display result in MsgBox as ServerName4
Sample Format:
ServerName1,ServerIP,Instance1,Type
ServerName2,ServerIP,Instance2,Type
ServerName3,ServerIP,Instance3,Type
ServerName4,ServerIP,Instance4,Type
ServerName5,ServerIP,Instance5,Type
.
.
.
Also as the CSV/TXT file contains large no of records , pls also consider the best way to avoid delay in fetching the results.
Please post your code, or at least show what you've already done.
You can use a Parsing Loop with CSV as the delimiter, and make a variable for each 'Instance' who's value is that of the current row's 'ServerName'.
The steps are to first FileRead the data from the file, then Loop, Parse like so:
Loop, Parse, data, CSV
{
; Parses row by row, then column by column in each row.
; A_LoopField // Current value
; A_Index // Current loop's index
; Write a script that makes a variable named with the current value of column 3, and give it the value of column 1
}
After that, you can make a Goto loop that spams InputBox and following a command that prints out the needed variable using the MsgBox command, like so:
MsgBox % %input%
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What does %date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2% mean?
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Closed 4 years ago.
I want to copy a file to another file that contains the time and date
in its name.
I use the statement below but the problem is for time values earlier than 10 AM (for which the hour value is only a single digit) there is a blank character instead of a leading zero, which I want.
copy "M:\Production Schedule.xlsm" m:\gsdBackups\ProductionSchedule%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,0%.xlsm
In the example above when I run it at 9:50 I get the resulting name:
GSDProductionSchedule20180509_ 950.xlsm
I do not understand all of the formatting that is going on in the above copy command. Rather than the " 950" below I'd like to have "0950"
As a recurring task this should be a batch file hiding the details.
use wmic or PowerShell to get date/time in a user settings /locale independent format
name the batch file to any name with the extension .bat or .cmd and place it in a folder which is in the path
:: Q:\Test\2018\05\09\SO_50256566.cmd
#echo off
Set "Src=M:\Production Schedule.xlsm"
Set "Dst=M:\gsdBackups"
:: Get date and time in a user settinhs/locale independent format
For /f %%Y in ('
powershell -NoP -C "(get-date).AddDays(0).ToString('yyyyMMdd_HHmm')"
') Do Set _DT=%%Y
:: get source and use for variable modifiers to get name extension separated
For %%F in ("%Src%") Do echo copy "%%~F" "%Dst%\%%~nF_%_DT%%%~xF"
Sample output:
> SO_50256566.cmd
copy "M:\Production Schedule.xlsm" "M:\gsdBackups\Production Schedule_20180509_1743.xlsm"
If it looks OK to you remove the echo in front of copy.
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split file on Nth occurrence of delimiter
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I have a large text file that has a repeating set of data with the header -XXXX- and the footer $$$$ for each entry. There are around 20k entries and I would like to separate it out into files of 500 entries each.
I've been toying around with awk and am using the command below which it close. Each file starts with -XXXX- but every file after the first has a partial entry at the end.
awk "/-XXXX-/ { delim++ } { file = sprintf(\"file%s.sdf\", int(delim / 500)); print > file; }" < big.sdf
For example:
-XXXX-
Beginning
Middle
End
$$$$
-XXXX-
Beginning
I instead want each file to end right after the $$$$.
I am using awk on Windows.
So if each set of data between -XXXX- and $$$$ is a record, you want to write 500 records at a time to separate files? It seems like you need two counters - one for the output filename that just goes up, and another for the number of records in the current "batch", which goes up to 500, but then gets reset to zero for the next batch. Something like:
BEGIN {fctr=1 ; rctr=0 ; file=("file" fctr ".sdf")}
/^\$\$\$\$$/ {print > file ; rctr+=1}
rctr==500 {fctr+=1 ; file=("file" fctr ".sdf") ; rctr=0}
!/^\$\$\$\$$/ {print > file}
Line 1 sets the initial values and starts off with file1.sdf
Line 2 matches the footer of each record, and we increment the record counter every time we see one (as well as writing out the current footer)
Line 3 is for when we reach 500 records. First move to the next filename, then reset the record count back to zero
Line 4 is for all the regular lines. Just send them to whatever is the current filename
For a CSV file generated in WLST / Jython 2.2.1 i want to update the header, the first line of the output file, when new metrics have been detected. This works fine by using seek to go to the first line and overwriting the line. But it fails when the number of characters of the first line exceeds 8091 characters.
I made simplified script which does reproduce the issue i am facing here.
#!/usr/bin/python
#
import sys
global maxheaderlength
global initheader
maxheaderlength=8092
logFilename = "test.csv"
# Create (overwrite existing) file
logfileAppender = open(logFilename,"w",0)
logfileAppender.write("." * maxheaderlength)
logfileAppender.write("\n")
logfileAppender.close()
# Append some lines
logfileAppender = open(logFilename,"a",0)
logfileAppender.write("2nd line\n")
logfileAppender.write("3rd line\n")
logfileAppender.write("4th line\n")
logfileAppender.write("5th line\n")
logfileAppender.close()
# Seek back to beginning of file and add data
logfileAppender = open(logFilename,"r+",0)
logfileAppender.seek(0) ;
header = "New Header Line" + "." * maxheaderlength
header = header[:maxheaderlength]
logfileAppender.write(header)
logfileAppender.close()
When maxheaderlength is 8091 or lower i do get the results as expected. The file test.csv starts with “New Header Line" followed by 8076 dots and
followed by the lines
2nd line
3rd line
4th line
5th line
When maxheaderlength is 8092> the test.csv results as a file starting with 8092 dots followed by "New Header Line" and then followed by 8077 dots. The 2nd ... 5th line are now show, probably overwritten by the dots.
Any idea how to work around or fix this ?
I too was able to reproduce this extremely odd behaviour and indeed it works correctly in Jython 2.5.3 so I think we can safely say this is a bug in 2.2.1 (which unfortunately you're stuck with for WLST).
My usual recourse in these circumstances is to fall back to using native Java methods. Changing the last block of code as follows seems to work as expected :-
# Seek back to beginning of file and add data
from java.io import RandomAccessFile
logfileAppender = RandomAccessFile(logFilename, "rw")
logfileAppender.seek(0) ;
header = "New Header Line" + "." * maxheaderlength
header = header[:maxheaderlength]
logfileAppender.writeBytes(header)
logfileAppender.close()
I've looked at the similar question about removing lines with more than a certain number of characters and my problem is similar but a bit trickier. I have a file that is generated after analyzing some data and each line is supposed to contain 29 numbers. For example:
53.0399 0.203827 7.28285 0.0139936 129.537 0.313907 11.3814 0.0137903 355.008 \
0.160464 12.2717 0.120802 55.7404 0.0875189 11.3311 0.0841887 536.66 0.256761 \
19.4495 0.197625 46.4401 2.38957 15.8914 17.1149 240.192 0.270649 19.348 0.230\
402 23001028 23800855
53.4843 0.198886 7.31329 0.0135975 129.215 0.335697 11.3673 0.014766 355.091 0\
.155786 11.9938 0.118147 55.567 0.368255 11.449 0.0842612 536.91 0.251735 18.9\
639 0.184361 47.2451 0.119655 18.6589 0.592563 240.477 0.298805 20.7409 0.2548\
56 23001585
50.7302 0.226066 7.12251 0.0158698 237.335 1.83226 15.4057 0.059467 -164.075 5\
.14639 146.619 1.37761 55.6474 0.289037 11.4864 0.0857042 536.34 0.252356 19.3\
91 0.198221 46.7011 0.139855 20.1464 0.668163 240.664 0.284125 20.3799 0.24696\
23002153
But every once in a while, a line like the first one appears that has an extra 8 digit number at the end from analyzing an empty file (so it just returns the file ID number but not on a new line like it should). So I just want to find lines that have this extra 30th number and remove just that 30th entry. I figure I could do this with awk but since I have little experience with it I'm not sure how. So if anyone can help I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Summary: Want to find lines in a text file with an extra entry in a row and remove the last extra entry so all rows have same number of entries.
With awk, you tell it how many fields there are per record. The extras are ignored
awk '{NF = 29; print}' filename
If you want to save that back to the file, you have to do a little extra work
awk '{NF = 29; print}' filename > filename.new && mv filename.new filename